Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-07
'P1lY ANECDOTES.
~. Of Both Belligerents Tell Of
80 ...Ias, Bullets, Bayonets, and
Boiled Beans.
ard Sailors Stirring Stories
+ slid Shot and Screaming
Shells.
. ra,ort to God the Reason
Why"
BYy. 7. PNiCKETT.

,.s,-,tun Fort Hudson was pending. In
iii colorei troops were to receive their
nan Of bleed" 1t was u races test OF
for freedom, The white Colonel OF
T,o i'm at, himself in arrest, and hence
,,,,,,,1,;.,d them in the battle, called
,j coior-tsnrcr to him and implOred
,Ss al .honor tho dag and bring rcpronch
t.. race by proving fccreanu to duty.
~ pn,ri It tllat he wus, this lowly repro
ye Of u lawly and dcspised race replled:
~, tf3csc colors back with honor or re-
l3d The reason why!" He reported to
sss tbon statues in the starlight stood
he "flach Brigade,
l@u tis rnuks tho Colonel strobe, and,
king, silent prayed:
cat Goa might fill with patriot zeal
III darNea'l SOUL and light
owiy bYeust 1. bright pathway to Free
ms new !irthright:
ESQ newborn SONS Of Freedom, i'll whose
selling hearts and breasts
4 the memories of centuries oil bondage
nd of WONG,
kro,row's dreadful slaughter, might. as
AR races vindication might be brave,
u; true, end strong.
|orller in the moonlight tiontod out the
'snrs nnd Rara;'
he "6lack brigade i'll silence stood be-
k,ath the stripes and Stars.
10 o we're trained nrtillrymen asleep by
Bleut uns;
erc loyui hearts in swelling breasts of
Freedom s ncw-born sons,
ircln cllat.elhood to manhood by tho
.uc Cf patriot pen,
irin!,ly, and sometimes doubling, loyal
erts looked on to SEQ
saves, nnd SerIs and Chattels, lifted to
be plane Of amen,
enock OF strife and baltic won thoir
MT to liDortv.
Ehe morning of tho baltic, and the Colo
els heart MIS- sore:
be- wed that with tho riso OF sun the can
ons AWFUL roar
reroraerate from hill TO plain, and Death
blood asr1ved,
grim in smoke OF conflict would assail
is 'iAaGk Eri2Gde.'
,aev lsove Ly deeds of valor in the cur
lqse III War stn e,
heir race, despite its bondage, was en-
it!ei to be free?
tlcy write i'll bloody characters OH His
h. living pns,ef
se races right to Freedom-write o races
kesaayT
stood those erstwhilo chettels-freemen
low, VI tll5h IQS-
e,s .eanin9 in tho starlight; what thor
hOus lts-hh, no ono know
t@y stand the test Of freemen? Would
lsy crevcn prove and quail?
the stains OF slavery wipe out i'll the
battle lendcn hail?
BE- iron rust of bondage entered deeply in
kh, soul?
hccsuelty of centuries tho springs Of
manhood dried?
they in tho blood OF conflict and the
a!.lts awful roll,
TO- despite :he years Of bondage, patriots,
heroes. ttuo and tried?
b to the color-beurer, and his voice was
Earnest, low
(hc coming day is ended patriot blood will
freely flow;
wild assault on frowning guns, think
tay OF tho years
pr races cruel bondage, of its groans, and
tres and Jenrs.
be starry flag Of freedom that you bear
loft to-day;
tis bravely in tho conflict and your race
ever FREQ;
falter boar it proudly in the thickest of
The fray:
TINS day in blood inaugurato your races
Pubilce.s
lup spoke the color-bearer, and his face in
tstariight's CLEAN,
with patriot fire aud ardor, Us TIE past
b horrid drenn--
d by with all its cruelty, its bondage and
its wrong.
is voice showed in it's earnest tones that
ls heart WAS true and strong,
(ugh my race has been in serfdom, yet
EeD lreemen here tonight,
TIE Stars and Stripes our beacon light
taat CLEANS athwurt the sky.
itrlns it back in honor bear it bravely in
Tie right,
R"yond the mystic river tell to God the
feason why"
horrid day of slaughter, and the crash
ri shot and shell
that men were bravely battling for the
ca0se they loved SO we'll.
w. cheer, d wild assault-and then the
| Stripes and stars"
"a proudly from the ramparts where had
waved the Stars and Bars"
Ey fought the dusky Black Brigade; in
blood mad rent the chains
ElAs OF slavery from fetter'd race; and
LShere, in blood. they'd trod.
u ue'sth. the color-bearer-his life's blood
INC banner stains-
To God
Fmap Lodgey.